The driver is a standard part of the OS and if it recognized any
external hard drive it should recognize the Seagate.
If you're lucky it's not the drive itself that crashed but just the USB
portion that failed. Inside the case may be just a standard, (well kind
of standard), ISA drive, or due to it's recent vintage a standard SATA
drive. You get the drive out of the case and plug it into a new case
and away you go. Staples sells a USB external drive case for 3 1/2 inch
drives for about $30-40. The trick is getting the drive out of the old
case. Some are screwed together, some glued, some are heat welded plastic.
On 1/22/2011 11:04 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
My 500 gig external harddrive crashed tonight... guess where all my
recent digital photos are?
This happened after I loaded PEF's onto it a couple of hours ago... a
couple of weird things happned... the PEntax Lab thing said there was
a loading error.
I know its not the USB port because I was able to attach my 80 gig
external to it and use it.
WHen I plug in the drive it says USB DEVICE NOT RECOGNIZED...and says
the divice has malfunctioned.
aarrrgggh!
Never had a drive crash on me before ...
I connected it to the old puter to see if I could revive it but no,
nothing...
WHen I goto the trouble shooting page it tells me I should try and
reconnect it (duh) and if that doesnt work "REPLACE THE DEVICE"
the device is a Seagate free agent 500 gig drive I got as a present
in 2007. All my photos from the last two years are on there
The C drive was getting crowded most everything I need is on the
external drive.
I sthis going to cost me a fortune to save it? is it possible there
is just a driver I need to reload?
Hugs along with info would be much appreciated
ann sad
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